Re: hello; first impressions

Erik Schoenfelder (schoenfr@sol)
Tue, 5 Oct 93 11:24:32 +0100

Hi!

KL> On many systems setsockopt has to be called to set some socket options
KL> to get ntping to work right.

KL> Here is an experimental patch that will fix it on systems on which the
KL> defines are available. This is based on some study of traceroute.

KL> It runs on BSDI BSD/386 now, mostly, and can do IP route
KL> discovery and the like.

Great. I'll add the diff to ntping.

KL> Oh, unless I set the default packet size down to 44 or so in
KL> scotty's icmp.c, I get a "message too large" error when trying
KL> to trace a route, too...

The manpage to sendto says:

> EMSGSIZE The socket requires that message be sent
> atomically, and the size of the message
> to be sent made this impossible.

I would guess the message is not too large, it is too small per
default; i will check this. Maybe Juergen will do the change in scotty.

Thanks, Erik